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Chicago examiner Chicago and vicinity fair f " \ i friday and probably baturday no important change in temperature ftx l^l light to moderate variable winds ihip'x-^f ' range of temperatures yesterday jv ill j iÂ°er^e-.:.:::::::::::::::::;:;:::::ao lslg^gl 1 examinej^leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in november sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand t e spare circulation books open to the inspection ol may advertiser vol xl no 311 a m friday Chicago december 19 1913 friday registered in u s pate.t otflt price one cent jss union station ordinance is drawn but roads balk dupont offers u s radium cancer cure 53,000 pearl necklace to be christmas gift dr marshall held guilty by merit board militants blow up london jail wall lake front plans are shelved by garrison u.s will grant an increasein rail rates what u s demands before lake front plans are approved capital is shaken by explosion of two bombs special cable to the examiner london dec is.-the wall of hollo way prison is considerably damaged to night as a result of tue explosion of two bombs which are said to have been set off by suffragettes the bombs exploded with great force and the wall of the prison was shattered for a distance of fourteen feet many windows in houses of the neighborhood were smashed and the force of the explosion was felt within a radius of half a mile a handful of fair hair was found near by and it is thought that the woman who exploded the bombs may have been injured urges government to take over deposits in colorado wilmington del dec is alfred i dupont powder magnate made an im portant statement to-day on the turning over to the government radium mines that he owns in colorado governmental ownership of railroads and telegraph lines is nothing compared to the necessity of taking over the radium producing deposits he said it is al most impossible to believe that dr kelly has effected such cancer cures never theless they are true if dr kelly appeared before a com mittee in congress and showed what has been accomplished in wiping out this disease i do not think there wonld be any hesitancy in the government taking over all the deposits no one cares for money in this matter panama canal to check yellow peril twelve cases of eggs stolen by yeggs racial expert says it will turn asiatics from california speolal cable to the examiner paris dec 18 the opening of tho panama canal will dissipate the yellow peril now menacing california accord ing to henri de peyerimhoff de fonte uelle expert on racial and colonization questions who has just returned from an extensive tour of the western states the opening of the canal will relievo the labor situation on the pacific coast by making access thereto cheaper and easier for european immigrants he said this will eventually result in the sub mersion of the surplus of the asiatic population which is now getting a foot hold in america pawnshops border and seaports are being watohed twelve cases of eggs were stolen from the waskow butter company 175 west south water street systematic search of pawn shops has been ordered although it is believed the robbers would not venture to dispose of their loot in Chicago tho canadian border and seaports are being watched a horse and wagon also were stolen hut abandoned beilis kept from america by friends nude madman leads royal orchestra lindley m garrison rothschild offers him home in palestine special cable to the examiner edsy dec 18 dr bychovsky who heads the committee in charge of the af fairs of mendel beilis said to-night that acting on the recommendations of several american jews it had been definitely de cided that beilis should not go to amer ica but the committee is considering an offer made by baron alfred de roth schild to give beilis a house in palestine taxi driver breaks into berlin opera caught with sheet special cable to the examiner berlin dec 18 the fashionable au dience at the royal opera house to-night were startled by the sight of an un clothed man who suddenly entered the parterre climbed the orchestra barrier and started to act as conductor of the orchestra he went through the mo tions of leading for a minute before he was seized covered with a sheet and dragged behind the curtain he was identified as a tnxicab driver who had suddenly become insane secretary of war gar m rison in shelving the peti tion for approval of chicago's lake front plans demanded that the following be acceded to be fore the proposition is again con sidered passage by the city council of an ordinance on behalf of the people requesting the per mit and giving approval to the proposed contract with the illi nois central railroad which al lows the railroad a wider right of way fc â€¢â€¢ Â« Â» passage by the state legisla ture of an act giving the south park board power to fulfill an agreement with the city of chi cago or the federal government permitting parts of the filled-in area to be used for harbor pur poses in the future if needed twins 95 plan xmas birth anniversary yale president to lecture at oxford ascribe long lives to abstinence from tobacco and alcohol new york dec 18 william and samuel muncy twins born christmas day isis near eabylon l i and still living on farms near where they were born are planning a quiet celebration of their ninety-fifth birthday neither ever has need tobacco or alcohol and to this and their life in the open they attribute their long lives dr hadley will tell of american history and institutions special cable to the examiner london dec 18 arthur twining hadley president of yale has been ap pointed lecturer on the history and insti tutions of the united states at oxford for 1914 secretary of war refuses peti ; tion of park board to fill in the water front until Illinois central rights are settled demands ordinance showing people favor move and act of legislature disapproves rail road right of way monopoly washington dec 18.-chlcago's j project for park development on the lake front was indefinitely shelved to ! day by secretary of war garrison contrary to expectations the secretary ! announced he would withhold permission i to the south park board to fill in from j randolph street to jackson park until the following steps have been taken 1 passage by the city council of an ordinance on behalf of the people requesting the permit and giving ap proval to the proposed contract with the Illinois central railroad which allows the railroad a wider right of way o passage by the state legislature of an act giving the south park board power to fulfill an agreement with the city of Chicago or the federal government permitting parts of the fllled-la area to be used for harbor purposes in the future if needed the secretary indicated that if the authorities desire to proceed with part of the improvement work on the chance that the federal government would later approfe the entire ' project he might give permission to fill in the lake in front of jackson park and from about ninety-fifth street to one hundred and second street with the express under standing that it would carry no implica tion that the project would be approved at the other points question of authorities the act of august 26 1912 provides the secretary of war is hereby authorized in his discretion to modify and extend harbor lines in front of the city of Chicago in such manner as to permit park extension work which may be desired by the muni cipal authorities including the chan ging and widening of the southern entrance to the Chicago harbor in his opinion to-day secretary gar rison emphasizes that he does not re gard mayor harrison or the south park board as the municipal authorities mentioned in the act the secretary indicates also that he i has not yet been convinced that the peo ple approve the south park board's agree ment with the Illinois central without the assurance which affirma tive action by the municipal authorities would give he says the department is without knowledge as to whether those most interested to-wit the citizens of Chicago desire the government so to act as to cause an alteration of the prescut status of the railroads title at this point monopoly is seen it seems to me that viewing this site as one that might be used for a harbor it would be most undesirable to commit all transportation facilities to one corpora tion and it would be advisable that the additional arer acquired by the railroad company and the constructions thereon be made available to all other transpor tation lines entering the city while i am entirely aware that the permit granted by the department uuder which the filllng-iu would be done would not convey title 1 cannot escape the knowledge conveyed to me by the papers submitted as to the effect of the permit from these sources i learn that the sit uation with respect to the Illinois cen tral railroad and the city and the state is that upon the granting of the per mit filling-in will take place parallel with the tracks of the company its present right whatever that may be is sought to be given legal validity and an additional right in fee simple is given in terms over a strip of fllled-ln land in any future harbor development at any point on the water front parallel to tho railroad right of way it might be a matter of great embarrassment to the government if wit the knowlodge above stated concerning tho nature character and extent of the title apparently con veyed to tho railroad company it had granted tho permit might embarass government it might estop tho government from acting in a way which the interests com j mitted to its care would otherwise require it to act while the secretary of war is in en tire sympathy with the plans of the park continued on 2d page 4th column 1 ji loveless age is seen by ochsner gems for gorgeous pendant were purchased in Chicago after world-wide hunt ' 79 jewels of rare beauty name of husband who buys it wife who selected it secret held only by peacock a pearl necklace costing 53,000 will be tucked into the toe of one Chicago wom an's stocking on christmas eve just who this woman is nobody knows precisely savo the woman herself her husband and walter peacock mr pea cock made the sale the husband paid for the necklace and the woman chose it the choice came after six weeks of the keenest of competitive shopping in new york Chicago and philadelphia these cities are the pearl centers of this coun try and their markets were ransacked only after several months of pearl seek ing on the continent and in that great est pearl market paris rumors of the rare beauty of the neck lace are abroad that particular coterie of fashionables to which this young and beautiful matron belongs is on the qui vive to behold it contains 79 gems of rose pearls it numbers seventy-nine gems the weight is approximately 350 grains the center pearl alone is valued at 20,000 the marquise diamond clasp is held at 2,500 in length the necklace is a scant 16 inches the pearls are all exquisitely matched and exceptionally per ! feet pearls are the gem of the moment said mr peacock yesterday as he declined to discuss the sale of the 5.1,000 necklace beside them diamonds don't count at all personally i think a pearl is more fascinating than a diamond it seems more human j it has become quite the thing in the last three years especially to purchase a necklace for its center pearl and then build-it up as the yeaÂ«~#Â»-oiii â€” thgÂ»>as semblage of a necklace is of course its greatest interest the most common price to pay for the center pearl is 5,000 | christmas business heavy all the large jewelers shops report a heavy christmas business in jeweler's row the stones are shining always but never so brightly at at yuletide lebolt & co loftis & co hyman & co berg & co and spaulding & co report a splendid selling spaulding & co have had heavy sales of watches especially those priced from 1,000 to 1,500 one of the best sales by bauman & co has been a diamond heart this will go to a yuletide bride there are 200 small and one one-and-three-quarter carat diamonds in it the setting is of gold and platinum and the stones are remark ably perfect a fresh water pearl that e schmidt of the firm says is the finest fresh water pearl in Chicago is being made into a pendant for a young de butante this is priced at 3,500 is the size of a small olive pit and exquisitely colored one west side matron yesterday purchased there a 3,000 ruby ring for her husband altogether santa clans is picking fat plums from the gem stores to hang on Chicago christmas trees duke of bedford's millions to canada new york gives 15,678 to blind members of interstate commerce commission ready to let up on railroads a little for the sake of general prosperity president is deeply interested expert finds wilson knows statistical situation of rail ways better than he does washington dec 18 the examiner has hig,h authority for the positive statement that the railroads are to be allowed to in crease their freight rates 5 per cent this is true of the eastern lines between the mississippi river and the atlantic coast and north of the ohio river a majority of the members of the interstate commerce com mission are convinced of the necessity of doing something for the roads the president al so has taken up the question and personally analyzed the reports of railroad earnings and ex penses one of the railroad experts of the government went to the â€” white house this week with statistics he found president wilson had worked out the figures for himself and knew more about them than the ex pert the president was deeply con cerned over the widespread re port of poor business in many industries he remarked that railroads cannot order requisite rails steel cars and improve ments unless they can earn the money to pay for them with credit impaired they cannot bor row the decision as to rates rests with the interstate commerce commission they are not unanimous but it has been de cided to hasten the hearings and the decision and this in itself indicates that the commissioners are going to let up on the rail roads a little for the sake of general prosperity as one of them expressed it â€” â– j * ottawa out dec 18,-the probabil ity of the duke of bedford investing in canada some of . the millions he re ceived for the sale of london properties is intimated in a cable to montreal the duke of sutherland sold property in eng land and is understood to have invested much of this money in canadian pacific and other canadian properties new york dec is every blind per son in new york city to-daty received the annual contribution which the mu nicipality makes to its blind residents a total of 15,678 was distributed to 003 men women and youths at the charities department twenty-six dollars was paid to each applicant charities commis sioner drummond supervised the distribu tion the first one in line was a blind youth of twenty-one who is working his way through college alfonso gives home rule to catalonia site is bought for shakespeare theater g 0 p trying to create panic clark charges state civil service commission orders his discharge from pontiac for cruelty beating boys is charge reformatory doctor held to have struck inmates and to have used profanity the state civil service commission yes terday sustained three of the ten charges preferred against dr james a marshall suspended physician at the state reforma tory at pontiac and ordered the board managers to remove dr marshall from office the decision came as the result of an investigation conducted by florence e sullivan at the request of governor ed ward fj._dunnc into conditions at the re formatory on the report of conditions found by mr sullivan dr marshall was tried by the civil service commission at the pontiac lnstittution beating charge sustained charges 2 6 and 9 are uphold in tho verdict of the commission these charges are o beating and abusing boys on their entrance to the reformatory jj knowingly permitting guards and teachers to beat and abnso in mates without reporting the cases to the board of managers q using profane obscene and in decent language to boy inmates without cause or reason the charge contained in specification 10 of the original bill of particulars against dr marshall that he accused boy in mates of improper practices and beat them if they denied it until they ad mitted the charge is sustained by tue ; trial according to the statement issued by the civil service commission simulta neously with the verdict of guilty that charge 10 is not given as a ground for removing dr marshall is due ac cording to the statement to the fact that dr ilarj3hs|ll may not have been equipped by his training as a"~geriern physician to judge of the evil practices he attributed to the boys freed of six charges charges 1 3 4 6 7 and 8 are not borne out by the evidence brought out at dr marshall's trial in the opinion of the civil service commission in these specifications dr marshall was ac cused of having refused to treat sick boys at the institution of beating sick boys who applied for treatment at the reformatory hospital of sending sick boys to the confinement cells â€” the screens â€” without cause of refusing to make pro fessional visits to sick boys confined in the screens and of advising guards and teachers to beat and otherwise abuse inmates in the statement accompanying the verdict against dr marshall the civil service commission gives a resume of the trial and of conditions leading to it the plan of the commission â€” to answer the charges made by the marshall attor neys that witnesses were carefully chosen and coached by chosing fifty boys at random to testify is reviewed it is pointed out that of the fifty boys taken at random twenty-three testified to abuses by dr marshall four testified to seeing other boys mistreated and two denied mistreatment the other twenty one were not placed on the stand the statement goes on it was recognized that testimony of persons confined in a reformatory must be taken with due allowance for ex aggeration and falsehood the commis sion sought diligently to learn whether any promises of reward or threats of punishment had been used to induce testimony against the doctor the widest latitude was given the defense in cross-examination and in its ef forts to attack the veracity of the wit nesses by showing their character reputation and the possibility of any influence being used upon them the commission gave careful consld | eration to the question whether the defendant was justified in his treat ment of inmates dr 11 d singer i director of the state psychopathic in stitute dr kufus von kleinsmidt psychologist and associate superin tendent of the indiana reformatory i at jeffersonville and robert w mc claughry a prison administrator of national reputation testified as ex perts it was their opinion that no i officer of an institution could ever be | justified in striking however lightly | or in raising his hand against nn in mate except in self-defense or for equivalent provocation as to the contention that dr marshall did not strike the inmates with force the i commission agrees with major xi c clanghry an officer or guard cannot make an assault and temper it down and then claim cause for it he had no business to make it the order of the civil service commis sion to the board of managers at the re formatory that dr marshall bo removed . from the list of civil service employes at the institution is to precipitate a fight headed vy marshall on the state itu service la auto man freed weds convent pupil special cable to the examiner madrid dec 18 king alfonso has signed a decree giving administrative home rule to catalonia and other regions the decree does not grant full autonomy but is regarded as the first step toward total control which has long heen de manded by catalonia special cable to the examiner london dec 18 the shakespeare memorial theater committee has acquired a site in gower street on the duke of bedford's bloomsbury estate for the proposed theater the cost was about 300,000 famous surgeon declares eu genics will supplant senti ment in marriage atlanta gn dec is the coming of a virtually loveless age when the doctrine of eugenics will be in general application and when marriage contracts will be based more on the laws of health than on sentiment was predicted to-day by dr a j ochsner of Chicago one of america's noted surgeons who is in at lanta attending the convention of the southern surgical and gynecological as sociation mankind is unmistakably drifting to ward an era when health will play a most important part in marriage said dr ochsner and it is not improbable that there will come a time when senti ment will be a minor factor in the for mation of marriage contracts the doc trine of eugenics is rapidly coming into greater favor all over the world and the trend of modern thought is certainly to ward its general application eugenics dr ochsner continued is but an outgrowth of the health awaken ing which is general throughout the world it is a recognition of the funda mental principle that an ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure and an ad mission of the truth that the health of a child is determined largely by the health of its parents terminals subcommittee despite flat refusal of lines to ac cept approves measure fo presentation to the council pennsylvania attorney reads ulti matum of companies at mid night meeting fisher is ac cused of working for delay ihe joint conference of the council and civic bodies with representatives of the pennsylvania group of railroads for a so lution of the pennsylvania terminal prob lem was ended in stern fashion at 1:20 o'clock this morning when the subcom mittee of the hallway terminals com mittee approved the entire terminal ordi nance except three sections despite the bitter objections of the railroads this was done after a stormy debate that had lasted more than six hours dur ing which the railroads flatly refused to accept several of the provisions of the ordinance before council monday the ordinance will come before the full kailway terminals committee for ap proval this morning and will go before the council at its meeting next monday night this ordinance refers entirely to i passenger terminal the freight ter minals also are to be taken up to-day the ordinance as approved contains the i revision for the straightening of the Chicago itiver and for the lengthening nnfl widening of canal street to join Chicago avenue sections which the toads as represented by robert eedfiem counsel for the onion station company said would not accept under any cirenm etonces whether passed by the council or not the sections thrown out were those referring to an electrification of the ronds inside of five years through rout ing of suburban trains and the construc tion of a road along the east bank of the river proposed by fisher two of these sections were proposed by walter l fisher counsel for the citizens committee who took an active part in the debate and one of the attor neys for the road asserted that fisher has been secretly working for the defeat of the ordinance in order to throw the question into the hands of the public utilities commission after january 1 walter fisher held a conference with a warm personal friend of governor dunne last tuesday night said the at torney and it was agreed at that meet ing that fisher should do his best to deiay the ordinance until after january 1 that it may be taken out of the city's control the valuation made by the city's real estate experts and approved by the coun cil's compensation committee call for 19,616,416 to be paid by the pennsylvania sroup of roads in return for street vaca tions and other concessions by the city mady of the items in the list were ap proved yesterday by the railroads but j lest night robert redfield general coun ' el for the union station company which houses the pennsylvania lines here read Â» long ultimatum flatly refusing to ac cept many of the provisions of the ordi nance darius miller agrees as he read darius miller president of the Chicago burlington & quincy rail toad seated beside redfield nodded in confirmation briefly told the roads say we refuse to accept the through routing of suburban trains we will not submit to the rulings of a technical commission to decide on valuations or anything that in volves the railroad property we will not agree to the widening of canal street by twenty feet the roads to give the property without compensation and accept the space un derneath we believe we own that space now we will not agree to any pre scribed plan for straightening the Chicago river that involves commit ting us now to giving up property without compensation we repudiate the section calling upon the railroads to build an elec tric road along the river on the east side we refuse to agree to electrify our roads inside of five yean ag this or dinance provides there was silence for almost a minute when redfleld sat down it was inter rupted by the mayor to ask if thi straightening of the river would not give the railroadÃŸ docking facilities they do not now enjoy extending from twelfth almost to sixteenth street the city has not power to gtve us any such dock facilities snapped mr red fleld this was followed by a two hours con ference in which the debate waxed al most bitter at times the efforts of bion j arnold and john f wallace special engineering expert to get the roads to agree to a three-headed arbitra tion commission one of them to be ehosen by the ronds were futile washington dec 18 within an hour and a half after john b keleher a wealthy automobile man of washington had become a free man through the action of the divorce mill he was married again at llockville md to miss gertrude bell dakin a georgetown convent pupil the new mrs keleher is only eighteen years old u s woman robbed of 12,500 in london special cabl to the examiner london dec 18 mrs henry k me harg of new york who is stopping at the imperial hotel torquay has been robbed of jewels valued at 12,500 and at the same time margaret graham u lady's maid who had been employed by mrs mcharg but two weeks has disap peared peary wants science depot at south pole takes floor in house to answec mann cannon and other republican leaders washington dec 18.-speaker clirk charged in a speech in the house to-day that the republican cries of bard times and calamity were manifestations of a conspiracy by republican leaders to dis credit the administration and the demo cratic party he defended both the tariff and the currency bills he named as leaders in this conspiracy senator root former speaker cannon icepubliean house leader mann former governor hadley of missouri and chair man charles d hilles o hc republican national committee i regret that mr mann is inspired by political motives in his uu about hard times following the inauguration of the _ democratic government said the speaker it is an incontestable state ment that every good citizen democrat republican bull mooser prohlbitionisc * or socialist wants to see this country prosper tho speaker placed part of the blame for existing industrial conditions on de lay wy the senate in passing the car icncy bill quoting james j hill tho speaker said that tightness in the money market was due to banks holding back their money because of uncertainty on currency legis lation the house bill offered the banks an>l the country the best financial plan that 200 n y bonds given home city by cassel urges continuation of american conquests mow yoke dec is admiral peary in an address to-night to the blind of tho city at the museum of naturnl his tory urged american scientists to con tinue bringing glory to the pnited states in the discovery of the north pole and with the completion cf the panama canal americans hate accomplished ft five years the things of which men had dreamed for ages he said 1 would like to see american scientists stationed at the south pole sdetlal cable te the examiner cologne dec 18 sir ernest cassel the famous british financier has . given to the city council of this his native town 200 new york city bonds with a face value of 272,500 to be used for the erection of country homes for working women and children of this city x the shopping guide to-day f / issantaclaus'directory m purn to.it now â€” in the examiner's rt"*l i i â– *â– want ad pages â€” and see the sugges i^s^n y tions for gifts that will make mother sl j /, happy put a smile on father's face de p-Â»<Â«w '/ light sister please brother and make the \* j k j baby forget its troubles jl Â«Â£ ,/ hphis is the last day this week that jj^v / a he guide will appear but if you fl^jfej shouldn't buy all your gifts to-day jsefflr f watch for the guide in the examiner tfj|||feif *% on monday and wednesday it will at save time money and a good deal of w^bj p w s ffi ffit i ije&a '. hj ljy â€” Â» ag 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Chicago examiner Chicago and vicinity fair f " \ i friday and probably baturday no important change in temperature ftx l^l light to moderate variable winds ihip'x-^f ' range of temperatures yesterday jv ill j iÂ°er^e-.:.:::::::::::::::::;:;:::::ao lslg^gl 1 examinej^leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in november sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand t e spare circulation books open to the inspection ol may advertiser vol xl no 311 a m friday Chicago december 19 1913 friday registered in u s pate.t otflt price one cent jss union station ordinance is drawn but roads balk dupont offers u s radium cancer cure 53,000 pearl necklace to be christmas gift dr marshall held guilty by merit board militants blow up london jail wall lake front plans are shelved by garrison u.s will grant an increasein rail rates what u s demands before lake front plans are approved capital is shaken by explosion of two bombs special cable to the examiner london dec is.-the wall of hollo way prison is considerably damaged to night as a result of tue explosion of two bombs which are said to have been set off by suffragettes the bombs exploded with great force and the wall of the prison was shattered for a distance of fourteen feet many windows in houses of the neighborhood were smashed and the force of the explosion was felt within a radius of half a mile a handful of fair hair was found near by and it is thought that the woman who exploded the bombs may have been injured urges government to take over deposits in colorado wilmington del dec is alfred i dupont powder magnate made an im portant statement to-day on the turning over to the government radium mines that he owns in colorado governmental ownership of railroads and telegraph lines is nothing compared to the necessity of taking over the radium producing deposits he said it is al most impossible to believe that dr kelly has effected such cancer cures never theless they are true if dr kelly appeared before a com mittee in congress and showed what has been accomplished in wiping out this disease i do not think there wonld be any hesitancy in the government taking over all the deposits no one cares for money in this matter panama canal to check yellow peril twelve cases of eggs stolen by yeggs racial expert says it will turn asiatics from california speolal cable to the examiner paris dec 18 the opening of tho panama canal will dissipate the yellow peril now menacing california accord ing to henri de peyerimhoff de fonte uelle expert on racial and colonization questions who has just returned from an extensive tour of the western states the opening of the canal will relievo the labor situation on the pacific coast by making access thereto cheaper and easier for european immigrants he said this will eventually result in the sub mersion of the surplus of the asiatic population which is now getting a foot hold in america pawnshops border and seaports are being watohed twelve cases of eggs were stolen from the waskow butter company 175 west south water street systematic search of pawn shops has been ordered although it is believed the robbers would not venture to dispose of their loot in Chicago tho canadian border and seaports are being watched a horse and wagon also were stolen hut abandoned beilis kept from america by friends nude madman leads royal orchestra lindley m garrison rothschild offers him home in palestine special cable to the examiner edsy dec 18 dr bychovsky who heads the committee in charge of the af fairs of mendel beilis said to-night that acting on the recommendations of several american jews it had been definitely de cided that beilis should not go to amer ica but the committee is considering an offer made by baron alfred de roth schild to give beilis a house in palestine taxi driver breaks into berlin opera caught with sheet special cable to the examiner berlin dec 18 the fashionable au dience at the royal opera house to-night were startled by the sight of an un clothed man who suddenly entered the parterre climbed the orchestra barrier and started to act as conductor of the orchestra he went through the mo tions of leading for a minute before he was seized covered with a sheet and dragged behind the curtain he was identified as a tnxicab driver who had suddenly become insane secretary of war gar m rison in shelving the peti tion for approval of chicago's lake front plans demanded that the following be acceded to be fore the proposition is again con sidered passage by the city council of an ordinance on behalf of the people requesting the per mit and giving approval to the proposed contract with the illi nois central railroad which al lows the railroad a wider right of way fc â€¢â€¢ Â« Â» passage by the state legisla ture of an act giving the south park board power to fulfill an agreement with the city of chi cago or the federal government permitting parts of the filled-in area to be used for harbor pur poses in the future if needed twins 95 plan xmas birth anniversary yale president to lecture at oxford ascribe long lives to abstinence from tobacco and alcohol new york dec 18 william and samuel muncy twins born christmas day isis near eabylon l i and still living on farms near where they were born are planning a quiet celebration of their ninety-fifth birthday neither ever has need tobacco or alcohol and to this and their life in the open they attribute their long lives dr hadley will tell of american history and institutions special cable to the examiner london dec 18 arthur twining hadley president of yale has been ap pointed lecturer on the history and insti tutions of the united states at oxford for 1914 secretary of war refuses peti ; tion of park board to fill in the water front until Illinois central rights are settled demands ordinance showing people favor move and act of legislature disapproves rail road right of way monopoly washington dec 18.-chlcago's j project for park development on the lake front was indefinitely shelved to ! day by secretary of war garrison contrary to expectations the secretary ! announced he would withhold permission i to the south park board to fill in from j randolph street to jackson park until the following steps have been taken 1 passage by the city council of an ordinance on behalf of the people requesting the permit and giving ap proval to the proposed contract with the Illinois central railroad which allows the railroad a wider right of way o passage by the state legislature of an act giving the south park board power to fulfill an agreement with the city of Chicago or the federal government permitting parts of the fllled-la area to be used for harbor purposes in the future if needed the secretary indicated that if the authorities desire to proceed with part of the improvement work on the chance that the federal government would later approfe the entire ' project he might give permission to fill in the lake in front of jackson park and from about ninety-fifth street to one hundred and second street with the express under standing that it would carry no implica tion that the project would be approved at the other points question of authorities the act of august 26 1912 provides the secretary of war is hereby authorized in his discretion to modify and extend harbor lines in front of the city of Chicago in such manner as to permit park extension work which may be desired by the muni cipal authorities including the chan ging and widening of the southern entrance to the Chicago harbor in his opinion to-day secretary gar rison emphasizes that he does not re gard mayor harrison or the south park board as the municipal authorities mentioned in the act the secretary indicates also that he i has not yet been convinced that the peo ple approve the south park board's agree ment with the Illinois central without the assurance which affirma tive action by the municipal authorities would give he says the department is without knowledge as to whether those most interested to-wit the citizens of Chicago desire the government so to act as to cause an alteration of the prescut status of the railroads title at this point monopoly is seen it seems to me that viewing this site as one that might be used for a harbor it would be most undesirable to commit all transportation facilities to one corpora tion and it would be advisable that the additional arer acquired by the railroad company and the constructions thereon be made available to all other transpor tation lines entering the city while i am entirely aware that the permit granted by the department uuder which the filllng-iu would be done would not convey title 1 cannot escape the knowledge conveyed to me by the papers submitted as to the effect of the permit from these sources i learn that the sit uation with respect to the Illinois cen tral railroad and the city and the state is that upon the granting of the per mit filling-in will take place parallel with the tracks of the company its present right whatever that may be is sought to be given legal validity and an additional right in fee simple is given in terms over a strip of fllled-ln land in any future harbor development at any point on the water front parallel to tho railroad right of way it might be a matter of great embarrassment to the government if wit the knowlodge above stated concerning tho nature character and extent of the title apparently con veyed to tho railroad company it had granted tho permit might embarass government it might estop tho government from acting in a way which the interests com j mitted to its care would otherwise require it to act while the secretary of war is in en tire sympathy with the plans of the park continued on 2d page 4th column 1 ji loveless age is seen by ochsner gems for gorgeous pendant were purchased in Chicago after world-wide hunt ' 79 jewels of rare beauty name of husband who buys it wife who selected it secret held only by peacock a pearl necklace costing 53,000 will be tucked into the toe of one Chicago wom an's stocking on christmas eve just who this woman is nobody knows precisely savo the woman herself her husband and walter peacock mr pea cock made the sale the husband paid for the necklace and the woman chose it the choice came after six weeks of the keenest of competitive shopping in new york Chicago and philadelphia these cities are the pearl centers of this coun try and their markets were ransacked only after several months of pearl seek ing on the continent and in that great est pearl market paris rumors of the rare beauty of the neck lace are abroad that particular coterie of fashionables to which this young and beautiful matron belongs is on the qui vive to behold it contains 79 gems of rose pearls it numbers seventy-nine gems the weight is approximately 350 grains the center pearl alone is valued at 20,000 the marquise diamond clasp is held at 2,500 in length the necklace is a scant 16 inches the pearls are all exquisitely matched and exceptionally per ! feet pearls are the gem of the moment said mr peacock yesterday as he declined to discuss the sale of the 5.1,000 necklace beside them diamonds don't count at all personally i think a pearl is more fascinating than a diamond it seems more human j it has become quite the thing in the last three years especially to purchase a necklace for its center pearl and then build-it up as the yeaÂ«~#Â»-oiii â€” thgÂ»>as semblage of a necklace is of course its greatest interest the most common price to pay for the center pearl is 5,000 | christmas business heavy all the large jewelers shops report a heavy christmas business in jeweler's row the stones are shining always but never so brightly at at yuletide lebolt & co loftis & co hyman & co berg & co and spaulding & co report a splendid selling spaulding & co have had heavy sales of watches especially those priced from 1,000 to 1,500 one of the best sales by bauman & co has been a diamond heart this will go to a yuletide bride there are 200 small and one one-and-three-quarter carat diamonds in it the setting is of gold and platinum and the stones are remark ably perfect a fresh water pearl that e schmidt of the firm says is the finest fresh water pearl in Chicago is being made into a pendant for a young de butante this is priced at 3,500 is the size of a small olive pit and exquisitely colored one west side matron yesterday purchased there a 3,000 ruby ring for her husband altogether santa clans is picking fat plums from the gem stores to hang on Chicago christmas trees duke of bedford's millions to canada new york gives 15,678 to blind members of interstate commerce commission ready to let up on railroads a little for the sake of general prosperity president is deeply interested expert finds wilson knows statistical situation of rail ways better than he does washington dec 18 the examiner has hig,h authority for the positive statement that the railroads are to be allowed to in crease their freight rates 5 per cent this is true of the eastern lines between the mississippi river and the atlantic coast and north of the ohio river a majority of the members of the interstate commerce com mission are convinced of the necessity of doing something for the roads the president al so has taken up the question and personally analyzed the reports of railroad earnings and ex penses one of the railroad experts of the government went to the â€” white house this week with statistics he found president wilson had worked out the figures for himself and knew more about them than the ex pert the president was deeply con cerned over the widespread re port of poor business in many industries he remarked that railroads cannot order requisite rails steel cars and improve ments unless they can earn the money to pay for them with credit impaired they cannot bor row the decision as to rates rests with the interstate commerce commission they are not unanimous but it has been de cided to hasten the hearings and the decision and this in itself indicates that the commissioners are going to let up on the rail roads a little for the sake of general prosperity as one of them expressed it â€” â– j * ottawa out dec 18,-the probabil ity of the duke of bedford investing in canada some of . the millions he re ceived for the sale of london properties is intimated in a cable to montreal the duke of sutherland sold property in eng land and is understood to have invested much of this money in canadian pacific and other canadian properties new york dec is every blind per son in new york city to-daty received the annual contribution which the mu nicipality makes to its blind residents a total of 15,678 was distributed to 003 men women and youths at the charities department twenty-six dollars was paid to each applicant charities commis sioner drummond supervised the distribu tion the first one in line was a blind youth of twenty-one who is working his way through college alfonso gives home rule to catalonia site is bought for shakespeare theater g 0 p trying to create panic clark charges state civil service commission orders his discharge from pontiac for cruelty beating boys is charge reformatory doctor held to have struck inmates and to have used profanity the state civil service commission yes terday sustained three of the ten charges preferred against dr james a marshall suspended physician at the state reforma tory at pontiac and ordered the board managers to remove dr marshall from office the decision came as the result of an investigation conducted by florence e sullivan at the request of governor ed ward fj._dunnc into conditions at the re formatory on the report of conditions found by mr sullivan dr marshall was tried by the civil service commission at the pontiac lnstittution beating charge sustained charges 2 6 and 9 are uphold in tho verdict of the commission these charges are o beating and abusing boys on their entrance to the reformatory jj knowingly permitting guards and teachers to beat and abnso in mates without reporting the cases to the board of managers q using profane obscene and in decent language to boy inmates without cause or reason the charge contained in specification 10 of the original bill of particulars against dr marshall that he accused boy in mates of improper practices and beat them if they denied it until they ad mitted the charge is sustained by tue ; trial according to the statement issued by the civil service commission simulta neously with the verdict of guilty that charge 10 is not given as a ground for removing dr marshall is due ac cording to the statement to the fact that dr ilarj3hs|ll may not have been equipped by his training as a"~geriern physician to judge of the evil practices he attributed to the boys freed of six charges charges 1 3 4 6 7 and 8 are not borne out by the evidence brought out at dr marshall's trial in the opinion of the civil service commission in these specifications dr marshall was ac cused of having refused to treat sick boys at the institution of beating sick boys who applied for treatment at the reformatory hospital of sending sick boys to the confinement cells â€” the screens â€” without cause of refusing to make pro fessional visits to sick boys confined in the screens and of advising guards and teachers to beat and otherwise abuse inmates in the statement accompanying the verdict against dr marshall the civil service commission gives a resume of the trial and of conditions leading to it the plan of the commission â€” to answer the charges made by the marshall attor neys that witnesses were carefully chosen and coached by chosing fifty boys at random to testify is reviewed it is pointed out that of the fifty boys taken at random twenty-three testified to abuses by dr marshall four testified to seeing other boys mistreated and two denied mistreatment the other twenty one were not placed on the stand the statement goes on it was recognized that testimony of persons confined in a reformatory must be taken with due allowance for ex aggeration and falsehood the commis sion sought diligently to learn whether any promises of reward or threats of punishment had been used to induce testimony against the doctor the widest latitude was given the defense in cross-examination and in its ef forts to attack the veracity of the wit nesses by showing their character reputation and the possibility of any influence being used upon them the commission gave careful consld | eration to the question whether the defendant was justified in his treat ment of inmates dr 11 d singer i director of the state psychopathic in stitute dr kufus von kleinsmidt psychologist and associate superin tendent of the indiana reformatory i at jeffersonville and robert w mc claughry a prison administrator of national reputation testified as ex perts it was their opinion that no i officer of an institution could ever be | justified in striking however lightly | or in raising his hand against nn in mate except in self-defense or for equivalent provocation as to the contention that dr marshall did not strike the inmates with force the i commission agrees with major xi c clanghry an officer or guard cannot make an assault and temper it down and then claim cause for it he had no business to make it the order of the civil service commis sion to the board of managers at the re formatory that dr marshall bo removed . from the list of civil service employes at the institution is to precipitate a fight headed vy marshall on the state itu service la auto man freed weds convent pupil special cable to the examiner madrid dec 18 king alfonso has signed a decree giving administrative home rule to catalonia and other regions the decree does not grant full autonomy but is regarded as the first step toward total control which has long heen de manded by catalonia special cable to the examiner london dec 18 the shakespeare memorial theater committee has acquired a site in gower street on the duke of bedford's bloomsbury estate for the proposed theater the cost was about 300,000 famous surgeon declares eu genics will supplant senti ment in marriage atlanta gn dec is the coming of a virtually loveless age when the doctrine of eugenics will be in general application and when marriage contracts will be based more on the laws of health than on sentiment was predicted to-day by dr a j ochsner of Chicago one of america's noted surgeons who is in at lanta attending the convention of the southern surgical and gynecological as sociation mankind is unmistakably drifting to ward an era when health will play a most important part in marriage said dr ochsner and it is not improbable that there will come a time when senti ment will be a minor factor in the for mation of marriage contracts the doc trine of eugenics is rapidly coming into greater favor all over the world and the trend of modern thought is certainly to ward its general application eugenics dr ochsner continued is but an outgrowth of the health awaken ing which is general throughout the world it is a recognition of the funda mental principle that an ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure and an ad mission of the truth that the health of a child is determined largely by the health of its parents terminals subcommittee despite flat refusal of lines to ac cept approves measure fo presentation to the council pennsylvania attorney reads ulti matum of companies at mid night meeting fisher is ac cused of working for delay ihe joint conference of the council and civic bodies with representatives of the pennsylvania group of railroads for a so lution of the pennsylvania terminal prob lem was ended in stern fashion at 1:20 o'clock this morning when the subcom mittee of the hallway terminals com mittee approved the entire terminal ordi nance except three sections despite the bitter objections of the railroads this was done after a stormy debate that had lasted more than six hours dur ing which the railroads flatly refused to accept several of the provisions of the ordinance before council monday the ordinance will come before the full kailway terminals committee for ap proval this morning and will go before the council at its meeting next monday night this ordinance refers entirely to i passenger terminal the freight ter minals also are to be taken up to-day the ordinance as approved contains the i revision for the straightening of the Chicago itiver and for the lengthening nnfl widening of canal street to join Chicago avenue sections which the toads as represented by robert eedfiem counsel for the onion station company said would not accept under any cirenm etonces whether passed by the council or not the sections thrown out were those referring to an electrification of the ronds inside of five years through rout ing of suburban trains and the construc tion of a road along the east bank of the river proposed by fisher two of these sections were proposed by walter l fisher counsel for the citizens committee who took an active part in the debate and one of the attor neys for the road asserted that fisher has been secretly working for the defeat of the ordinance in order to throw the question into the hands of the public utilities commission after january 1 walter fisher held a conference with a warm personal friend of governor dunne last tuesday night said the at torney and it was agreed at that meet ing that fisher should do his best to deiay the ordinance until after january 1 that it may be taken out of the city's control the valuation made by the city's real estate experts and approved by the coun cil's compensation committee call for 19,616,416 to be paid by the pennsylvania sroup of roads in return for street vaca tions and other concessions by the city mady of the items in the list were ap proved yesterday by the railroads but j lest night robert redfield general coun ' el for the union station company which houses the pennsylvania lines here read Â» long ultimatum flatly refusing to ac cept many of the provisions of the ordi nance darius miller agrees as he read darius miller president of the Chicago burlington & quincy rail toad seated beside redfield nodded in confirmation briefly told the roads say we refuse to accept the through routing of suburban trains we will not submit to the rulings of a technical commission to decide on valuations or anything that in volves the railroad property we will not agree to the widening of canal street by twenty feet the roads to give the property without compensation and accept the space un derneath we believe we own that space now we will not agree to any pre scribed plan for straightening the Chicago river that involves commit ting us now to giving up property without compensation we repudiate the section calling upon the railroads to build an elec tric road along the river on the east side we refuse to agree to electrify our roads inside of five yean ag this or dinance provides there was silence for almost a minute when redfleld sat down it was inter rupted by the mayor to ask if thi straightening of the river would not give the railroadÃŸ docking facilities they do not now enjoy extending from twelfth almost to sixteenth street the city has not power to gtve us any such dock facilities snapped mr red fleld this was followed by a two hours con ference in which the debate waxed al most bitter at times the efforts of bion j arnold and john f wallace special engineering expert to get the roads to agree to a three-headed arbitra tion commission one of them to be ehosen by the ronds were futile washington dec 18 within an hour and a half after john b keleher a wealthy automobile man of washington had become a free man through the action of the divorce mill he was married again at llockville md to miss gertrude bell dakin a georgetown convent pupil the new mrs keleher is only eighteen years old u s woman robbed of 12,500 in london special cabl to the examiner london dec 18 mrs henry k me harg of new york who is stopping at the imperial hotel torquay has been robbed of jewels valued at 12,500 and at the same time margaret graham u lady's maid who had been employed by mrs mcharg but two weeks has disap peared peary wants science depot at south pole takes floor in house to answec mann cannon and other republican leaders washington dec 18.-speaker clirk charged in a speech in the house to-day that the republican cries of bard times and calamity were manifestations of a conspiracy by republican leaders to dis credit the administration and the demo cratic party he defended both the tariff and the currency bills he named as leaders in this conspiracy senator root former speaker cannon icepubliean house leader mann former governor hadley of missouri and chair man charles d hilles o hc republican national committee i regret that mr mann is inspired by political motives in his uu about hard times following the inauguration of the _ democratic government said the speaker it is an incontestable state ment that every good citizen democrat republican bull mooser prohlbitionisc * or socialist wants to see this country prosper tho speaker placed part of the blame for existing industrial conditions on de lay wy the senate in passing the car icncy bill quoting james j hill tho speaker said that tightness in the money market was due to banks holding back their money because of uncertainty on currency legis lation the house bill offered the banks an>l the country the best financial plan that 200 n y bonds given home city by cassel urges continuation of american conquests mow yoke dec is admiral peary in an address to-night to the blind of tho city at the museum of naturnl his tory urged american scientists to con tinue bringing glory to the pnited states in the discovery of the north pole and with the completion cf the panama canal americans hate accomplished ft five years the things of which men had dreamed for ages he said 1 would like to see american scientists stationed at the south pole sdetlal cable te the examiner cologne dec 18 sir ernest cassel the famous british financier has . given to the city council of this his native town 200 new york city bonds with a face value of 272,500 to be used for the erection of country homes for working women and children of this city x the shopping guide to-day f / issantaclaus'directory m purn to.it now â€” in the examiner's rt"*l i i â– *â– want ad pages â€” and see the sugges i^s^n y tions for gifts that will make mother sl j /, happy put a smile on father's face de p-Â»